OF

The Law

OP

VENDORS AND PURCHASERS

OF

ESTATES.

By EDWARD BURTENSHAW SUGDEN, Esq.

OF LINCOLN'S-INN.

BONÆ FIDEi venditorem, nec cOMMODORÜM SPEM AUGERE,

NEC INCOMMODORUM COGNITIONEM OBSCURARE OPORTET.
VALERIUS MAXIMUS, L. viii. c. 11.

LONDON:

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R. WILKS, Printer,

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THROUGHOUT the following Treatise, it has been the author's endeavour to state the Law in as concise a manner as accu racy would permit. Brevity seemed to be peculiarly called for in a work professedly written with a view to practical utility.

The Profession will perceive that the greater part of the subject has not been hitherto treated on. In regard to those parts in the elucidation of which the talents of other gentlemen have already been applied, it has been the author's constant practice not to resort to the works of those gentlemen, until he had gone through all the Cases he could meet with on the subject, and had finally arranged